EDUCATOR

As a practitioner and artist, I have always thrived on the training and the rehearsal processes, and I come to teaching with the same love of discovery. I am interested in developing pedagogy and praxis that is student centered and in service of both working towards a more equitable undergraduate experience and pushing to rethink practices in the industry. Today’s professional world has more space for individuality than it used to and students who can share all their idiosyncrasies and complex layers of identity will be more compelling, and more importantly, more truthful.

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I believe in creating a classroom community where students encourage each other rather than are competitive, which goes together with respecting personal boundaries and diverse experiences. Using consent-based and trauma-informed practices in the classroom works in the same way as foregrounding accessibility: every person is a recipient of the benefits of this way of working and no one’s needs are unaccounted for. These philosophies also undergird my way of working as a director and intimacy choreographer.

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I think about storytelling as it expressed through movement & embodiment, spatial relationships, physical characterizations, collaborative ensemble work, and theatrical moments. I am interested in many types of projects, including musicals, realism-based plays and plays that test the boundaries of conventional frameworks as well as smaller projects, cabarets, solo performance, and workshops.